Description
This book presents recent international research on how teacher educators, institutions and policy makers perceive, act on and experience the dual responsibility that teacher educators are required to develop. Teacher educators are both teachers and researchers, a hybrid position which might be challenging to fulfil.
Teacher education has attracted much research over the years. It has also been subject to national and international debates about its goals and core features as well as issues of quality and effectiveness. More recently, attention has been given to the work, identity and professional development of teacher educators. The various chapters in the book address the topic of teacher educators as teachers and researchers in diverse countries and contexts, namely Australia, Belgium, England, Ireland, Israel, Portugal, Norway and the USA. Collectively, the authors examine the work of teacher educators considering their core mission, their professional development opportunities and the demands and needs of their working contexts.
The chapters in this book were originally published in a special issue of the European Journal of Teacher Education.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Teacher educators as teachers and as researchers
Kari Smith and Maria Assunção Flores
1. The Janus faced teacher educator
Kari Smith and Maria Assunção Flores
2. Once were teachers? Australian teacher education policy and
shifting boundaries for teacher educators
Simone White
3. Capturing the relations between teacher educators’ opportunities for professional growth, work pressure, work related basic needs satisfaction, and teacher educators’ researcherly disposition
Hanne Tack and Ruben Vanderlinde
4. Articulating, reclaiming and celebrating the professionalism of teacher educators in England
Eline Vanassche, Warren Kidd and Jean Murray
5. Challenges for Irish teacher educators in being active users and producers of research
Ann MacPhail and Mary O’Sullivan
6. Israeli teacher educators’ perceptions of their professional development paths in teaching, research and institutional leadership
Ainat Guberman and Oded Mcdossi
7. Redesign in teacher education: the roles of teacher educators
Frances O’Connell Rust
